Up until this coming Christmas, I've always done Christmas morning with my parents. Just lucked out that way, I guess. So this year will be a whole new start to our family’s Christmas J
Upon getting married, I asked my husband what traditions he did that he would love to continue, and combined it with my favorites.
These are some of the things we like to do:
- We decorate the day after Thanksgiving (if we didn't go anywhere) or the Sunday after (if we did J), which we let our kids do some of the hanging of ornaments, as they are able. This year we even got a train for the tree!
- We make treats to give to our friends, and my oldest gets to help.
- We go caroling. We’ve always done it with Ed’s “2nd Family”, but since we don’t live in Colorado anymore, we will just have to find new friends to go with!
- We open one present on Christmas Eve, usually something like a book or pajamas.
- We have a large breakfast on Christmas morning and a simpler dinner. We only look at our stockings before breakfast, and unwrap our presents afterward.
- My girls are into Hot Wheels, which is a toy we think is pretty gender-neutral, so we give them a new one in their stockings J
- There’s always the ol’ “Take a picture with Santa” which we do at our ward Christmas party (Santa at the mall is a rip off)… this year’s is rumored to be Hawaiian… imagine that…
Mele Kalikimaka Everyone!
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